A Japanese diplomat is creating abstract art using sand from Israel and the Palestinian territories as symbols of prayers for ...

From abstraction to realism, artists are drawn to nature, one of the most enduring themes in art. Combining observation with ...

Representational art became a dynamic, driving force in the art market as the world was leaving the era of COVID in the 2020s ...

O nce abstract art was thought too odd and ugly to last out a season; now people speculate about what it will have meant “when it dies.” Yet abstract art does not die easily. Top U.S. artists ...

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Abstract art had to be attempted; it had its bootleggers, too, namely the dealers. But as was suggested by the present writer in "The Caliph's Design," it is a (fantastic) branch of architecture ...

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, ...

Abstract art of high merit has an extraordinary capability and inherent tendency to catch hold of the original thought ...

Abstract art from a new angle: a promise which the brand-new privately funded Museum Reinhard Ernst has delivered on since June 2024. Showing works by international greats such as Helen ...

Brain scans show that viewing abstract art elicits greater variability in brain activity, particularly within the default mode network, compared to representational art. This suggests that ...

In a sleepy German town, a major new museum has opened. For its master architect and his patron, the project is more than a shrine to Abstract Expressionism. It may be the defining work of a lifetime.